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| Insight - Jordan takes no chances in confronting homegrown Jihadis | | | By Samia Nakhoul and Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - At Jordan's State Security court, Islamic State militants, clad in green military fatigues with long, unkempt beards, stood impassively, awaiting sentence inside a black iron cage. The barred enclosure was very much like the one in which their fellow jihadis in Syria burned alive Jordanian pilot Mouath al-Kasaesbeh, igniting a storm across a troubled kingdom in an uneasy alliance with the West against Islamic State (IS). |
| "Jihadi John" from Islamic State beheading videos unmasked as Londoner | |  By Michael Holden and Stephen Addison LONDON (Reuters) - Investigators believe that the "Jihadi John" masked fighter who fronted Islamic State beheading videos is a British man named Mohammed Emwazi, two U.S. government sources said on Thursday. He was born in Kuwait and comes from a prosperous family in London, where he grew up and graduated with a computer programming degree, according to the Washington Post. In videos released by Islamic State (IS), the black-clad militant brandishing a knife and speaking with an English accent appears to have decapitated hostages including Americans, Britons and Syrians. The Washington Post said Emwazi, who used the videos to threaten the West and taunt leaders such as President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron, was believed to have travelled to Syria around 2012 and to have later joined IS.
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| Air strikes hit IS in Syria after 220 Christians abducted | | | By Oliver Holmes and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - A U.S.-led alliance launched air strikes against Islamic State on Thursday in an area of northeast Syria where the militants are now estimated to have abducted at least 220 Assyrian Christians this week, a group monitoring the war reported. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air strikes targeted Islamic State fighters near the town of Tel Tamr, where the militants, also known as ISIS, had captured 10 Assyrian villages. A prominent Syrian Christian, Bassam Ishak, told Reuters: "Some people have tried to call them by cellphone, the relatives that have been abducted, and they get an answer from a member of ISIS who tells that they will send the head of their relative. "They are trying to terrorise the parents, the relatives in the Christian Assyrian community," said Ishak, who is president of the Syriac National Council of Syria. |
| Warnings about hospital sex crimes of UK star Savile ignored - official reports | |  Warnings about Jimmy Savile, the late BBC TV presenter revealed two years ago to have been one of Britain's most prolific sex offenders, who preyed on victims at hospitals where he volunteered, were ignored, official reports said on Thursday. New reports into his activities on Thursday revealed he had abused 60 people at Stoke Mandeville hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympic games, between 1969 and 1992, and despite it being an "open secret" that he was a "lecher," nothing was done. The informal complaints were neither taken seriously nor escalated, said Androulla Johnstone, lead investigator for one of the reports, while the formal one was dropped by the complainant's father due to her serious ill health.
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| Pachauri urged to quit TERI after sex harassment complaint | |  Lawyers and women's rights groups have demanded the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri from his Delhi-based thinktank, after a sexual harassment complaint which led to him quitting as chair of the U.N. panel of climate scientists earlier this week. In a letter to the governing council of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), activists said the thinktank had a responsibility to provide an atmosphere free from sexual harassment and discrimination against women. Too many men in positions of power in India are taking advantage of younger women by sexually harassing them, leading to women dropping out of the workforce, activists said.
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